[color=e25822]Name[/color]: Ceisstia “Tia” V’dore

[color=e25822]Race[/color]: Asari

[color=e25822]Sex[/color]: mono

[color=e25822]Age[/color]: 179

[color=e25822]Class[/color]: Vanguard, security, weapons tech. She also has some first aid skills and rudimentary piloting experience with transports and single-person craft.

[color=e25822]Appearance[/color]: Tia stands at around 5’8”, with dark bluish-violet skin and dark blue eyes. She has a rather slim, muscular build, appropriate for the amount of training and combat practice she does. The second head crest on her left side is missing a third of its length. Her facial markings are very short and narrow, save for where they extend along her head crests. She has numerous knife and bullet scars across her body. Her armour is decorated dark purple, with certain pieces bearing patch marks, dents, and scars. She almost always wears at least one piece of it, usually the breastplate and shoulderplates. Her visor unit is never removed.

[color=e25822]Background[/color]: Ceisstia was born on Omega, the daughter of a club dancer, however she bears very little memory of her. During a turf war between the Blood Pack and another gang, a stray missile struck their apartment, and Tia’s mother was killed. It was this same event that damaged Tia’s headcrest. 

Afterwards, Tia was essentially adopted by a Turian named Matius Ruflin, a disgraced former captain who had deserted after a poor tactical decision resulted in his unit being annihilated by pirates. Matius and Tia’s mother had had a quite cordial relationship, and Matius saw Tia as his chance at redemption, by teaching her the codes of honour that he had failed to live by. 

Under Matius’s tutelage, Tia became proficient in marksmanship and hand-to-hand combat, as Matius recognized that Omega could be a very dangerous place for someone who was not capable of defending themselves. The combat philosophy that she developed was one of brutal efficiency and pragmatism, taking down enemies in a short period of time without giving them any opportunity to recover, retaliate, or strike first. This relationship also drove the development of Tia’s biotics, using them primarily to supplement her skills as opposed to relying on them. Consequently, Tia’s biotic strength is only a little above the average Asari. By far the most formative lesson that Matius taught her was that of integrity. Tia’s word became her bond, and the idea of breaking it was anathema to her. It was not until much later, when her adoptive father lay on his death bed, that she learned how much of a hypocrite he was. 

As many on Omega were known to do, after Matius's death Tia joined up with one of the mercenary gangs that controlled virtually every aspect of the station's life. In Tia's case, it would be the Eclipse who took her in. Over the course of her 115 years as a member, Tia has developed a reputation as someone who could always be relied upon to get the job done, with relatively few moral issues. She also became known as someone who would clear house, with zero tolerance for traitors and backstabbers, regardless of rank, position or skill set. This became apparent very early on in her career, while she was working security aboard a salarian freighter that was commonly used by the Eclipse for smuggling. The captain was discovered to be both overcharging the gang for fuel and supplies, as well as shortchanging his crew, so as to produce more profit for himself. When Tia demanded her pay in full, the captain attempted to cover his tracks by killing her. The confrontation ended with the captain's head splattered against the wall. 

This was only the first of several such incidents; people who made the mistake of attempting to take advantage of her supposed naivety learned that having a sense of honour was not a weakness. This is not to say that these attempts have not left their mark. Most of her scars came from wounds left by those who decided they were better served with her out of the chain, and a botched treatment of one such injury cost her all feeling in three fingers on her left hand.

Ultimately, it was this dedication to honour, along with the Eclipse's habit of getting into feuds with the Blue Suns and Blood Pack, that caused Tia to leave; the few people she considered trustworthy were all too often killed by those who weren't. When she made the decision to leave, the bloody path she had left across their ranks made the gang decide that perhaps the wiser choice was to leave her be. The two came to an understanding: Eclipse would not come after Tia directly, and Tia would not return to Omega.

For the next 24 years, Tia primarily took on security contracts, retrieval bounties, and the occasional hit if the pay was enough. Those who hired her found that she treated contracts with the same level of respect as most species treated holy scripture. Tia always completed the job as it was agreed upon, payment was expected as agreed upon, and renegotiation was only accepted if there were unforeseen complications in the jobs completion. Employers also found that attempting to cheat Tia was unwise: she always came to collect, and even death would not keep her from getting what she was owed.

With the flood of contracts and hunts following the Skyllian Blitz, times have been good for Ceisstia, and she's developed a modest nest-egg for herself. No longer feeling inclined to accept high-risk contracts, she's turned her interests towards more secure, long-term work. And a newly posted security contract with a certain salarian smuggler looks just right to her.

[color=e25822]Equipment[/color]: Executioner pistol, M-22 Eviscerator shotgun, M-96 Mattock heavy rifle, Incendiary grenades, medium armour with off-hand ammo packs, and a visor unit (a precursor to the Archon visor) that she acquired as payment for a job.

[color=e25822]Powers[/color]: Pull, Throw, AP ammo, Disrupter ammo, Shredder ammo, technically Stasis, however using it requires concentration and cripples her combat ability

[color=e25822]Colour: Flame, E25822[/color]